Southern Gali-Forriia
SUMMER TROJAN
VOL. IX
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, MONDAY, JULY 13, 1959
NO. 7
Lariats Spin Into Bovard
Westchester Troupe
Dances Wednesday
The national famous dancing Westchester Lariats will spin through 40 different authentic costume dances as they dance “Around the World in Song and Dance,” Wednesday night in Bovard Auditorium, 8 to 10:15.
In a spectacular production, the Westchester Lariats, sponsored by the Westchester -—-------
Linquist Sacks Will Interpret Spain Today
Dr. Norman P. Sacks, visiting professor from Oberlin Cqllege, will give a lecture on Spain, Wednesday at 9 a.m. in 129 FH.
The department of Spanish and Italian are sponsoring this event and all summer session should get their tickets earlv at j students and faculty are invited
R.otary Club and the URA, will present their 237th show during the past ^even years.
Dr. Tillman Hall, physical education professor at SC and URA director,is director of the group.
Tickets for the Wednesday night performance go on nsale at $1 for adults and 50 cents for children. They can be purchased in advance at the URA office, 112 PE, or at the door the night of the performance.
“Only a few tickets will probable be left at the box office and all students who want to
be sure they see the show
COLORFUL LARIATS - These Seven "Lollipops" will be on hand to entertain ail Summer Session students when they perform this Wednesday night in Bovard Auditorium, 8 - 10:15. They will appear with over 100 other boys and girls in the first major
local appearance of the Westchester Lariat group. After two Hollywood Bowl specials, the troupe will go on a cross-country tour to entertain at colleges, universities and Armed Forces group.
Near East Expert Thomas To Discuss Iraq, Turkey
Princeton Professor Lewis V. Thomas will begin a week full of lectures by speaking on the importance of Iraq today and discussing the strategic position of Turkey Wednesday at the Faculty Luncheon.
“Contemporary American Policy Toward Iraq,” will be given at 3:15 today in 129 FH. “United States and Turkey” will be the topic of his luncheon lecture giv-
en at noon during the Faculty Luncheon, Commons.
Dr. Thomas, visiting professor at SC’s Summer School, has lived and taught in the Middle East and is an acknowledged authority on that area.
A regular teacher at Princeton, Dr. Thomas came to SC this summer to teach two courses, one in International Relations and one in History.
Board Member Hardy To Talk at Luncheon
Georgiana Hardy, Board Member of the Los Angeles City Schools and national book reviewer on television, will speak before the Sigma Chapter of Pi Lambda Tbeia Luncheon Thursday.
Pi Lambda Theta, the national honorary society for women in education, will hold their special luncheon at noon in the
Commons Dining room.
Mrs. Josephine David, vice president of the Sigma Chapter and principal of Dorsey Adult School, said that Mrs. Hardy will take time off from a busy schedule of lecturing, television and administrative duties, to be guest speaker at the luncheon.
Reservations can be made through Dr. Tema Clare, biology department (Ext. 256) and all students, professors and friends are invited to come.
Mrs. Virginia Archer, president of society and principal of Shenandoah School in Los Angeles, >aid that Mrs. Hardy is a very active woman in school
activities and that the Sigma chapter was very pleased to get her to lecture before them on Thursday.
GEORGIANA HARDY
. . . Theta tea
“My lecture on Monday will deal exclusively with the Iraq nation,” Dr. Thomas said.
“It§ history, land and traditions will be discussed in full as well as the United States’ position and role in the Middle East.”
Dr. Thomas will begin his lecture with a short description of the country of Iraq. He will then show the recent history of the country.
“At the end of World War I, Britain set Iraq on its feet, creating a new Arab state,’ he ’said. The role of Iraq in the Arab world has since become an important and influential one.”
United States and Iraq relations at the end of Work War II and their relationship from 1945 to the present will be told. Dr. Thomas will conclude his lecture with a wrap-up of the situation between the United States and Iraq today.
On Wednesday, Dr. Thomas will talk about one of his favorite subjects, Turkey.
His knowledge of the country has resulted in the publication of several articles including “Turkey: Guardian of the Straits,” and “Turkey:	Partner of the
West.” He is also co-author of “U.S. on Turkey and Iran.”
The United States and Turkey, the importance of their friendly relationship and the situation as it is today, will be explained by Dr. Thomas during the luncheon.
Dr. Thomas received his BA and MA at the University of Chicago and his PhD from the University of Brussels. He then lived and taught in the Middle East.
the URA office, Dr. Hall said.
The Lariats, comoosed of well over 100 boys and girls, specialize in every kind of song and dance, but emphasize “the prettiest of International Folk Dances.”
‘‘Not only are these dancers nrood performers.” said Dr. Hall i n a pre-performance interview.” but thev are one of the
nicest groims of boys and girls found anvwhere.”
“We hope that the audience will enjoy the porformance as much as the boys and girls will in presenting it to them,” he
said.
The Lariats have prformed many times on Television and
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to attend.
Dr. William M. Whitby, associate professor of Spanish, said that Dr. Sacks has just returned from a recent visit to Spain.
“He has promised to use the -illustrated slides he took while on that trip with his lecture,’* Dr. Whitby said.
Dr. Sacks is on the committee concerned with College Language Manual Project which will produce a model textbook for beginning Spanish texts on a college level.
He is a consultant on cultural comparisons between Spain and
Mexico for this group. He is also the editor of a world-wide publication, “Romance Linquist-ics Newsletter”.
Meaning of Suffering Instilled by Tragedy
BY PONCHITTA PIERCE Workshop Correspondent
“Tragedy must be taken serious by the author and his audience, because from a tragedy comes the meaning o f suffering/’ Dr. Eleazer Lecky said in his lecture on “The End of Tragedy?” last week.
“The true meaning of suffering is arrived at by watching tragedy, the author’s interpretation and the audience’s reaction,” he explained.
Speaking before a large audience, Dr. Lecky maintained that tragedy in America today is still possible.
Referring to Archibald Mac-Leish’s “J.B.” a play based on the story of Job, he said that the premature proclamation that tragedy in America today is out needs clarification.
“It seems to me that the traditional idea of tragedy is an oversimplification. Tragedies d o not have to de$l with the gigantic; nor do they necessarily end with an affirmation. Using the dramatic form helps us to understand human suffering in a better light,” he said.
Dr. Lecky explained the causes of tragedy by comparing the Greek Tragedy (“in which most of the suffering was imposed by the Gods”) and the tragedy of modernist, T.S. Eliot J
j (“Murder in the Cathedral”).
He also discusses Tennessee I Williams’ “Suddenly Last Summer:” Arthur Miller’s “Crucible;” and Eugene O’neil’s “Huey.”
Dr. Lecky has been porfessor at SC since 1934, earning his PhD from Harvard University.
Grads Explain What is Man'
“What is Man?” the third in a Graduate Student Luncheon Forum series, will take place today at 12:05 at the Episcopal Centre.
Episcopal Chaplain Hamilton said that the Marxian Concept of Man will be discussed fully. Questions concerning how much man is determined by the social and economic standing as reflected in dialectical materialism will be answered.
“Like other 19th century post-Christian Naturalists,’’ Marx was very much a product of his age in both his conscious and unconscious assumptions,” Chaplain Hamilton said.
Whether or not his ideas are then incomplete will be answered at the Forum.